by Henry Oliner | Dec 7, 2017 | Politics
from The John Conyers Abdication by Ben Shapiro at National Review: Americans love to mock the British for their addiction to royalty. But the fact is that we have created our own version of royalty in our politics, right down to inheritance and droit du seigneur....
by Henry Oliner | Dec 6, 2017 | Economics, Politics
from Jonah Goldberg at National Review, How to Tell When Deficits are Bad As a matter of economic policy, conservatives believe that the people themselves are better at spending their money than the government is. Cutting taxes and regulations drives economic growth....
by Henry Oliner | Dec 5, 2017 | Uncategorized
Kevin Williams writes on health insurance The Private Option- Back to Square One in National Review. We have written about the problem with cross subsidization driving up costs, the perverted incentives of third party payers and the tax incentives to over-insure. ...
by Henry Oliner | Aug 13, 2013 | Uncategorized
At an address at a YPO meeting in 1997 at Washington and Lee, Journalist and columnist Jack Germond used the following illustration: A man awoke one morning to his alarm. The time was 5:55 AM. He went to the bathroom where an indoor /outdoor thermometer showed the...
by Henry Oliner | May 25, 2012 | Economics, Economy
The default belief of our economic history of the last 100 years has been an acceptance of the dynamic growth of capitalism punctuated by excesses of market greed that have to be corrected by the singular wisdom of government regulation. On closer examination many of...